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Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose in Black Caribbean and South Asian Canadians with Non-insulin Treated Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Perspectives.
Abstract
Background:To examine the views and current practice of SMBG among Black Caribbean and South Asian
individuals with non-insulin treated Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Methods: Twelve participants completed semi-structured interviews that were guided by the Health Belief Model
and analyzed using thematic network analysis.
Results: The frequency of monitoring among participants varied from several times a day to once per week. Most
participants expressed similar experiences regarding their views and practices of SMBG. Minor differences across
gender and culture were observed. All participants understood the benefits, but not all viewed SMBG as beneficialto their personal diabetes management. SMBG can facilitate a better understanding and maintenance of self-care behaviours. However, it can trigger both positive and negative emotional responses, such as a sense of
disappointment when high readings are not anticipated, resulting in emotional distress. Health care professionals
play a key role in the way SMBG is perceived and used by patients.
Conclusion:While the majority of participants value SMBG as a self-management tool, barriers exist that impede its
practice, particularly its cost. How individuals cope with these barriers is integral to understanding why some
patients adopt SMBG more than others
Stratigraphy of Cretaceous to Lower Pliocene sediments in the northern part of Cyprus based on comparative 87Sr/86Sr isotopic, nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal dating
New age data from Sr isotope analysis and both planktonic foraminifera and nannofossils are presented and discussed here for the Upper Eocene–Upper Miocene sedimentary rocks of the Değirmenlik (Kythrea) Group. New dating is also given of some Cretaceous and Pliocene sediments. In a revised stratigraphy the Değirmenlik (Kythrea) Group is divided into ten formations. Different Upper Miocene formations are developed to the north and south of a regionally important, E–W-trending syn-sedimentary fault. The samples were dated wherever possible by three independent methods, namely utilizing Sr isotopes, calcareous nannofossils and planktonic foraminifera. Some of the Sr isotopic dates are incompatible with the nannofossil and/or the planktonic foraminiferal dates. This is mainly due to reworking within gravity-deposited or current-affected sediments. When combined, the reliable age data allow an overall biostratigraphy and chronology to be erected. Several of the boundaries of previously defined formations are revised. Sr data that are incompatible with well-constrained biostratigraphical ages are commonly of Early Miocene age. This is attributed to a regional uplift event located to the east of Cyprus, specifically the collision of the Anatolian (Eurasian) and Arabian (African) plates during Early Miocene time. This study, therefore, demonstrates that analytically sound Sr isotopic ages can yield geologically misleading ages, particularly where extensive sediment reworking has occurred. Convincing ages are obtained when isotopic dating is combined with as many forms of biostratigraphical dating as possible, and this may also reveal previously unsuspected geological events (e.g. tectonic uplift or current activity)
Positive approximations of the inverse of fractional powers of SPD M-matrices
This study is motivated by the recent development in the fractional calculus
and its applications. During last few years, several different techniques are
proposed to localize the nonlocal fractional diffusion operator. They are based
on transformation of the original problem to a local elliptic or
pseudoparabolic problem, or to an integral representation of the solution, thus
increasing the dimension of the computational domain. More recently, an
alternative approach aimed at reducing the computational complexity was
developed. The linear algebraic system , is considered, where is a properly normalized (scalded) symmetric
and positive definite matrix obtained from finite element or finite difference
approximation of second order elliptic problems in ,
. The method is based on best uniform rational approximations (BURA)
of the function for and natural .
The maximum principles are among the major qualitative properties of linear
elliptic operators/PDEs. In many studies and applications, it is important that
such properties are preserved by the selected numerical solution method. In
this paper we present and analyze the properties of positive approximations of
obtained by the BURA technique. Sufficient conditions for
positiveness are proven, complemented by sharp error estimates. The theoretical
results are supported by representative numerical tests
God\u27s Church Is Just: A Specific Discussion Of Some Cases of Church Discipline
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The Iowa Homemaker vol.7, no.6
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On Birthing Dancing Stars: The Need for Bounded Chaos in Information Interaction
While computers causing chaos is acommon social trope, nearly the entirety of the history of computing is dedicated to generating order. Typical interactive information retrieval tasks ask computers to support the traversal and exploration of large, complex information spaces. The implicit assumption is that they are to support users in simplifying the complexity (i.e. in creating order from chaos). But for some types of task, particularly those that involve the creative application or synthesis of knowledge or the creation of new knowledge, this assumption may be incorrect. It is increasingly evident that perfect order—and the systems we create with it—support highly-structured information tasks well, but provide poor support for less-structured tasks.We need digital information environments that help create a little more chaos from order to spark creative thinking and knowledge creation. This paper argues for the need for information systems that offerwhat we term ‘bounded chaos’, and offers research directions that may support the creation of such interface
Critical Behavior of the 3d Random Field Ising Model: Two-Exponent Scaling or First Order Phase Transition?
In extensive Monte Carlo simulations the phase transition of the random field
Ising model in three dimensions is investigated. The values of the critical
exponents are determined via finite size scaling. For a Gaussian distribution
of the random fields it is found that the correlation length diverges
with an exponent at the critical temperature and that
with for the connected susceptibility
and with for
the disconnected susceptibility. Together with the amplitude ratio
being close to one this gives
further support for a two exponent scaling scenario implying
. The magnetization behaves discontinuously at the
transition, i.e. , indicating a first order transition. However, no
divergence for the specific heat and in particular no latent heat is found.
Also the probability distribution of the magnetization does not show a
multi-peak structure that is characteristic for the phase-coexistence at first
order phase transition points.Comment: 14 pages, RevTeX, 11 postscript figures (fig9.ps and fig11.ps should
be printed separately
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